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omaine du Comte Liger-Belair is a very recent domaine created at the beginning of the year 2000 by Louis-Michel Liger-Belair, agricultural engineer and oenologist, with those few parcels of vineyards remaining in family hands.
In reality, the domaine i Louis-Michel is renewing two hundred years of family tradition dedicated to the vines and wines of Burgundy in general, and to Vosne-Roman&e in particular.
The Liger-Belair family settled in Vosne
when Louis Liger-Belair, napoleonic general, acquired the Chateau of Vosne in 1815.
The domaine
grew considerably under the general&s direction and that of Louis-Charles, his adopted son
who was the son of his sister.
Louis-Charles married Ludovie Marey, a well-known family who owned
vineyards and had been nego&iants since the eighteenth century.
When the Comte Louis-Charles died, the family&s holdings covered more than sixty hectares principally in the C&te de Nuits with ownership of some of France&s most prestigious appellations: the monopolies of La Roman&e, La T&che, La Grande Rue, a large portion of Malconsorts,
parcels of Chaumes, Reignots, and Suchots in Vosne Roman&e, Saint Georges and Vaucrains in Nuits St. Georges, Clos Vougeot and Cras in Vougeot, Chambolle, Morey, as well as Chambertin. In addition,
a domaine of fifteen hectares at Fleurie in the Beaujolais.
The Comte Henri Liger-Belair, grandson of the Comte Louis-Charles, the eldest child of the family and great grandfather of Louis-Michel died in 1924.
He left a wife and ten children in possession of twenty-four hectares of vines and the chateau.
The domaine held together until the death of the Comtesse Liger-Belair in 1931. The ten children were still there but two were minors and the law of that era required that all children must be of age in order to distribute the inheiritance or the estate must be sold.
Three of the family members did not want to wait until the younger children reached legal adulthood and insisted that the entirety of the domaine be put up for sale.
A sad August 31st, 1933 at the town hall of Vosne Roman&e
vineyards were auctioned off.
The children witnessed the departure from their patrimony of La Tache, the Malconsorts, the Brul&e&..However, two of the children, Just, a priest, and his brother, the Comte Michel, Louis-Michel&s grandfather, banded together to buy back La Roman&e, Reignots, and les Chaumes.
The vineyards were entrusted to local vignerons, and sales to Burgundian nego&iants.
The Comte Michel died in 1941, during the war before he could redevelop the Domaine.
His son, the Comte Henry, Louis Michel&s father, enlisted in the army in 1949,
pursued a brilliant career and rose to the rank of general following in the footsteps of his ancestor six generations earlier.
He managed the domaine leaving vineyard work to sharecroppers, and commercialization to various shippers.
When he was eight years old Louis-Michel informed his parents that he intended to live in Vosne-Roman&e when he grew up.
His father informed Louis-Michel that he could not take charge of the domaine unless he became an engineer.
Therefore, Louis-Michel majored in science, is a qualified agricultural engineer, has a degree in
commerce, and a diploma in oenology from the University of Dijon.
He created his domaine in 2000 by taking back 1.5 hectares of vineyards (Vosne-Roman&e La Colombi&re, Clos du Ch&teau, 1er Cru Les Chaumes), and in 2002 je recovered another 1.6 hectares (Vosne-Roman&e 1er Cru Aux Reignots, La Roman&e).
In 2006, he rent 5.5 hectares more, including a large parcel of Echezaux, Vosne-Roman&e 1er Cru Les Suchots, Les Petits Monts and Les Br&l&es, Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Aux Cras, Vosne-Roman&e and Nuits-Saint.Georges.
With his wife, Constance, and their three children & Henry (2002), Brune (2003), and Pia (2006), he now manages 8.7 hectares of vines in Vosne-Roman&e, Nuits St. Georges, and Flagey Echezeaux.
Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair
Ch&teau de Vosne-Roman&e
21700 Vosne-Roman&e
Tel: +33(0) 380 62 13 70 - Fax: +33(0) 371 70 00 50AUX文件夹是什么？_百度知道}